Historical Artifacts

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'Swordbreaker' for catching and binding enemy weapons, Qing China, 19th century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

My impression from the Wiki entry above is that it's used to break edged weapons via blunt force vs. the more familiar European variant that traps/disarms/bends/snaps blades via torsion. Might be wrong, but it seems that way, at least.